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Infographic: The Scope of TB
Last updated 24 April 2012
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Infographic: Treating TB
Last updated 30 March 2012
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Infographic: What is TB?
Tuberculosis (TB) is often thought of as a disease of the past, but an ongoing resurgence makes it very much an issue of the present day and age. New data suggests that the global scope of multidrug-resistant...
Last updated 23 March 2012
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Infographic: What are the effects of TB?
Tuberculosis (TB) is often thought of as a disease of the past, but an ongoing resurgence makes it very much an issue of the present day and age. TB is caused by a bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis,...
Last updated 23 March 2012
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Improving TB detection and treatment in Cambodian prisons
MSF is expanding medical activities in three prisons in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to include basic primary health care in addition to providing ongoing TB/HIV screening and treatment support. MSF has been...
Last updated 19 March 2012
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MSF expands patient-centred approach in fight against TB in Armenia
MSF has stepped up the implementation of patient-centred drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) treatment programme in Armenia in order to try to combat the alarming rising rates of the disease in the country. DR-TB...
Last updated 19 March 2012
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Lives in the Balance: the story of Maung Myint, a TB and HIV patient struggling to get lifesaving treatment in Myanmar, as donors slash future funding.
Maung Myint, “I believe ART will be able to give me a normal life. I dream to be healthy again, to own a flip-flop making business. I don’t know what will happen if I can’t get ART. I don’t know...
Last updated 22 February 2012
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MSF steps up TB support in Cambodia
MSF is scaling up its tuberculosis support in the Cambodian province of Kampong Cham while continuing to help shape the nation’s national TB programme. Cambodia 2011 © Eddy McCall With a prevalence...
Last updated 21 December 2011
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The thinnest of lifelines: An interview with MSF President, Dr. Unni Karunakara on MSF’s response to the funding crisis at the Global Fund
In a move that could have a profound impact on patients in developing countries, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria has announced it won’t be accepting any grant applications this year to...
Last updated 1 December 2011
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Myanmar: HIV/AIDS is still a taboo subject
Myanmar 2011 © Veronique Terrasse/MSF Dr Calorine Mekiedje specialises in the treatment of HIV/AIDS and has worked in Mozambique and Cameroon, among other places. She talks about her experience...
Last updated 24 November 2011
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